Bible verses about "seasons" | Thomson

¹⁰ For as the rain when it descendeth, or snow, from the heavens, doth not return thither, till it hath watered the earth, and caused it to generate and bloom and yield seed for the sower and bread for food; ¹¹ so shall it be with my word: when it hath proceeded from my mouth, it shall not be reversed, till all are accomplished which I willed; and till I prosper thy ways and my commandments.

³² Now learn this parable from that fig tree. When its branches become tender and put forth leaves, you know that the summer is near.

¹ Now, in respect to the times and the seasons, you brethren, have no need of our writing to you;

⁶ in whom you exult with joy though you are now for a little while, if it be necessary, distressed with divers trials;

¹⁴ Then God said, "Let there be luminaries in the firmament of heaven, to give light on the earth; to make a separation between the day and the night: and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years;

³ And he will be like the tree planted by the streams of water, which will yield its fruit in due season, and its fruit shall not fall untimely. In all that he doth he shall be prospered.

¹⁹ He hath appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his time for going down.

⁹ therefore let us not be weary in well doing, for in due time we shall reap without being tired.

⁷ Whereupon he said to them, It is not for you to know times and seasons which the Father hath reserved in his own disposal.

²² While the earth continueth, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, with a succession of day and night shall not cease."

²¹ and he changeth times and seasons. He setteth up kings and removeth them. He giveth wisdom to the wise and understanding to them who have knowledge.

¹ Time is for all things: but there is a particular portion of time for every particular affair under heaven; ² a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to root up what was planted; ³ a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to pull down and a time to build up; ⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; ⁵ a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; ⁶ a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away; ⁷ a time to rend and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak; ⁸ a time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace. ⁹ What is the lasting advantage of the agent from the things in which he laboureth? ¹⁰ I have taken a collective view of all the business which God hath assigned to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. ¹¹ All the things which he made, considered as a whole, are good in his time. But with regard to all things considered as one whole, to them he hath assigned the whole age; so that no man can find out the work which God hath done from beginning to end. ¹² I have found that there is no good in them ¹³ [I mean in regard to every man who eateth and drinketh, and can see good in all his labour] if there is not a gift of God that he may be made glad and do good in his life. ¹⁴ I have found that all the things which God hath made shall continue their age; there is no adding to it nor taking from it; and that God hath acted that they may be awed at his presence. ¹⁵ What hath been is now; and what are to be have already been; and God will find out him who is persecuted: ¹⁶ and yet I saw under the sun a place of judgment; was the [[a] an objection, [b] the answer.] wicked there? and a place for the just; was the pious there? ¹⁷ Then I said in my heart God will judge the whole class of the righteous, and the whole class of the wicked. For there is a time for every thing; and he is there over all the work. ¹⁸ I communed with my heart concerning a saying of the sons of men, "That God distinguisheth them." Now in order to shew that they themselves are beasts, ¹⁹ that at least which befalleth man, befalleth them; and that which befalleth the beast befalleth man. The same event happeneth to both. As the one dieth, so doth the other. And they have all one breath. What advantage then hath man over the beast? None: for all are vanity. ²⁰ They are all for one place. They were all from dust: and to dust they shall all return. ²¹ And who hath seen the breath of the sons of men whether it ascendeth upwards; and the breath of the beast, whether it descendeth downwards into the earth? ²² So I saw that there is nothing good in the works of man, but that by which he can be made glad; for that is his portion, for who will bring him to see what will be after him?